Re: [FWP] @$a[0] = 5;

[Adam Rice <wysiwyg@glympton.airtime.co.uk>]

Quoting Christian Borup (borup@borup.com):
> $a and $b seems to be accidents of history indeed (along with $AUTOLOAD).

What's wrong with $AUTOLOAD? What *really* bothers me is &import. Why? It's
in LOWER CASE! In every other case (except, okay, $a and $b) in Perl, an
alphanumeric identifyer that is special in some way is in UPPER CASE to show
the MAGIC. But &import, which is clearly magical, as it is called by "use",
isn't. Perhaps the original intent was that "use" would not be builtin, and so
&import would not be magical ("use" has some weird macro nature that makes it
give messed-up error messages).

-- 
Adam Rice -- wysiwyg@glympton.airtime.co.uk -- Blackburn, Lancashire, England

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